The History of the First Microscope

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Who is credited with inventing the first microscope?

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
  • Salvino d'armate
  • Hans Lippershey
  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen (correct)

Where did Hans Lippershey settle and make spectacles, binoculars, and microscopes?

  • Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Middelburg, Holland (correct)
  • Wesel, Germany
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands

When was the first microscope invented?

  • 1400s
  • 1500s (correct)
  • 1200s
  • 1300s

Who is most famous for filing the first patent for a telescope in the 1570s?

<p>Hans Lippershey (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What principle of optics was already known by the 1200s?

<p>Magnification (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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